Lexical Stress

The Handbook of Speech Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 264-289

  Cutler, Anne ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic realization; Lexical stress; Perceptual apprehension; Sentence stress; Speech signal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890707862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470757024.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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